Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.
Science is about unravelling nature.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.